Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe. Having been the sight
of fighting for many centuries (as it still is today) Albania has suffered
in recent years from a Communist regime that was so isolationist it would
have nothing to do with any other country except China. Until the early 1990s
there were no land routes into Albania from any of its neighbouring
countries.Albania's capital city is Tirana.

Much of the interior is mountainous and the country has a long way to
go before it becomes a tourist destination, particularly in the north where
ethnic tensions exist with neighbouring Serbia, particularly over the Kosova
disputed territory.